Yobe

September 22, 2018YobeComments Off on One killed, three injured as soldiers, Shiites clash in Yobe – Punch …2

Kayode Idowu, Damaturu One person was reportedly killed and three others injured in a clash between the military and members of the Islamic Movement of Nigeria in Potiskum, Yobe State on Friday. It was gathered that the fracas began shortly after the IMN members rounded off their Ashura procession with prayers around …

September 22, 2018YobeComments Off on Nigeria’s Cholera Cases Soar as Outbreak Kills 611

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September 21, 2018YobeComments Off on Studies: Diarrheal disease rates vary across Africa, world4

Two new studies highlight the substantial burden of diarrheal diseases across Africa and the globe, with an especially profound impact on the very young and very old. The first study, published today in the New England Journal of Medicine, focuses exclusively on young children. By using maps that marked rates …

September 21, 2018YobeComments Off on Yobe’s Theatre Of The Absurd By Ahmed Bulama Gulani2

Ibrahim Geidam, Yobe State Governor Governors are always elected to serve the people. They are custodians of public funds on behalf of the people. They have immunity not because impunity is encouraged but because they need protection to give all their best, without distraction, to the service of the people. …

September 20, 2018YobeComments Off on George Onmonya: Yobe 2019: The politics of imposition6

The governor of Yobe State, Ibrahim Geidam, has publicly chosen his successor, who has been endorsed by President Muhammadu Buhari. Mr. Mai Mala Buni, the current Secretary of the APC, is the man the Governor handpicked to replace him. This imposition was what many members of the PDP who joined …

September 20, 2018YobeComments Off on We’re not neglected in Yobe – APC disabled leader5

The APC zonal leader for the disabled, Mohammed Abba Isah, has rejected the allegation of government’s neglect of person living with disabilities in Yobe state. The chairman of Joint national association of persons with disabilities in Yobe had accused the state government of no regard to their plight on schools …

September 19, 2018YobeComments Off on Rains lead to bumper harvests, lower foodstuff prices in Yobe5

Prices of foodstuff have crumbled in Yobe State as farmers commenced the harvesting of their produce, the News Agency of Nigeria reports. NAN checks revealed that a bag of millet which used to sell between N11, 000 and N12, 000 is now sold between N6, 500 and N7,000. Malam Hassan …

September 19, 2018YobeComments Off on Yobe governor, Gaidam named Governor of the year 2018 in Education2

Yobe state governor, Ibrahim Gaidam has been named Nigeria’s Governor of the year 2018 in Education by African Education monitor magazine. The publisher of the Lagos based magazine, Mr. Oludaisi Adetarami told Daily Trust in Akure, the Ondo state capital on Wednesday that Governor Gaidam’s choice from among other state …

September 19, 2018YobeComments Off on Yobe APC resolves crisis as Bukar steps down for Gaidam, endorses Buni as governor2

The simmering crisis in the Yobe State chapter of the All Progressives Congress (APC) has been amicably resolved. This follows the adoption of the candidature of the National Secretary of the APC, Mallam Mai Mala Buni as the consensus governorship candidate of the party in 2019, by Senator Bukar Abba …